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Blueprint Of A Blog…

…and the Confessions of an Organization Freak

Hi and welcome to another post! I’m going to start off by admitting I’m kind of an organization freak…I love to organize, catalog and label EVERYTHING!! So naturally I’d be “compelled” to organize my new blog in some way . 🙂

I thought I’d share a visual and descriptive aid to show how my blog is structured, and hopefully help visitors maneuver around it 🙂

The first pag visitors should arrive at is my main or “Welcome” page. This is the hub, or departure point for everything on my blog. The Welcome page contains:

A Welcome message

A little bit about me

The main navigation menu

My most recent blog post

A search box

A couple of cool widgets!

Below are a few screen shots that annotate the various areas of my Welcome Page.

The next stop on the navigation menu is “About Me and My Blog”. Here, you will find FASCINATING posts about me and my life! Ok so “fascinating” was an exaggeration, but this is where you’ll find posts about me and my blog, my experiences and my thoughts on life in general.

You can explore the different ways to get in touch with me by selecting the “Contct Me” menu option. In addition to information on how to contact me, I’m thinking about using this area to post a few random thoughts on the variou communication options we have availabe to us these days; and why sometimes “vintage options” like snail-mail is best 🙂 I love meeting and chatting with people, so please check out this page…I’d love to hear from you!

The next menu option is where you can quickly browse all posts related to a specific category of interest. After clicking the “Categories” menu option you will have the following categories availabe for your browsing pleasure.

Card Making, Scrapbooking, & Other Paper Crafts

Card Making – Posts on cards I make that illustrate different techniques, materials and inspiration. This category also contains a couple sub-categories:

History of Card Making – Posts on the history of cards, and additional vintage inspiration.

Smocking – Smocking is often considered a technique of heirloom sewing, but I prefer to keep it as a seperate sub-catagory of sewing. Here you will find posts on smocking projects, patterns, technique, history and inspiration.

History of Sewing – Posts about the vast and long history of sewing, including my collection of vintage sewing related items.

History of Fashion – Here you will find posts about the history of fashion and fashion design, which may have actually started when Adam & Eve looked for something to cover their nakedness upon having to leave the Garden of Eden!

Machine Embroidery – Posts on machine embroidery projects, techniques and inspiration; and the two sub-categories below:

History of embroidery – Posts on the history of hand embroidery incldung vintage articles and patterns dealing with hand embroidery.

Yarn Spinning and Knitting – Posts on all things dealing with spinning yarn from fiber and knitting.

Stars of Inspiration – Posts hilighting crafters who have consistently inspired me; and future stars who really starting to shine.

Product Reviews – Here you will find unpaid and unsponsored reviews of products and tools that I’ve tried and used.

Organization – Posts about the methods and tools I use to keep my studio neat and tidy so I can enjoy the crafting experience 🙂

Other – Posts on other random areas of interest to me, including Bassett Hounds and Barbie.

Well that’s it for my “Blueprint of a blog”. It’s definitely not the most stimulating post, but hopefully it gave you an idea of where I want to take my blog; and some ideas for you to quickly find specific types of information.

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Welcome to Self Images, a place where I like to share my crafting interests! My name is Angela Self, although I usually post on blogs as Angie Self. I'm a 55 yr old wife, mother, and grandmother; and a full time Technical Librarian. I've been crafting, in some form, since I was six years old. My dad's mom, who I called Mom Mom, taught me how to hand sew and I've been crafting since! I still sew often, but have picked up several other crafty interests through the years including: heirloom sewing, machine embroidery, spinning yarn, knitting, scrapbooking, card making, and mixed-media art journaling. My personal mantra is "Learn at least one new thing a day". Since I love to learn new things, I'm always adding new craft interests! It's these varied crafty interests that I hope to share with other people through this blog :)